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<P><B>SSFNet</B> is a collection of packages for high-performance scalable
modeling and simulation of large, multi-protocol, multi-domain IP networks.

<P><B>SSFNet</B> provides Java SSF-based components
for modeling and simulation of Internet protocols and networks
at and above the IP packet level of detail.
Link layer and physical layer modeling can be provided in separate components.</P>

SSFNet models are <I>self-configuring</I> - that is, each SSFNet class
instance can autonomously configure itself by querying a configuration database,
which may be locally resident or available over the Web.
All network configuration files are in the DML format. They are used
to configure a complete model, and instantiate a simulation with the help of
the scalable DML configuration database package that is distributed with the SSF simulators.</P>

<P>The principal classes used to construct virtually any large or small Internet model
are organized into two derivative frameworks,
<TT>SSF.OS</TT> (for modeling of the host and operating system components, esp. protocols) and
<TT>SSF.Net</TT> (for modeling network connectivity, creating node and link configurations).</P>

<P>The frameworks <TT>SSF.OS</TT> and <TT>SSF.Net</TT> hide all details of the discrete event simulator SSF API,
allowing to implement the protocols like for a real operating system.</P>

<P>Support for modeling global-scale Internet monitoring infrastructures is provided by the package
<TT>SSF.Util.Streams</TT>.

<P>Support for the generation of high quality independent random number streams and a collection
of common probability distributions is provided by the package <TT>SSF.Util.Random</TT>,
that manages the random number stream seeds and
encapsulates the high quality pseudorandom generators and distributions from
the <TT>cern.jet.random</TT> and related packages used in CERN scientific libraries.

<P>See the directory <TT>ssfnet/doc/raceway</TT> in the SSFNet distribution
for documentation of the SSF parallel simulator kernel and the DML model configuration database.

<P>See the SSFNet tutorials, examples and documentation at the <A HREF="http://www.ssfnet.org" target=_blank>SSFNet website</A>

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